134 DANIEL Bruun. 
in their "Umiak” over which, naturally witchraft had been practised 
by an Angekok [Eskimoe sorcerer], who went with them on the expedi- 
tion. Whilst the boat now drifted before a slight westerly wind [in 
through Ameralikfiord’s continuation, Ameragdla] they began to catch 
glimpses of the Norsemen, who every now and then came out of the 
house [:The dwelling house on the Norse farm at Kilärsarfik, perhaps 
the same as Gudrid’s farm in Lysefiord.] If one went in, another 
came out at once, so as to spy out across the fiord. One of them 
shouted so loudly so that it could be heard out on the fiord: “It is 
no boat only a hummock of ice.” 
The Norsemen kept no longer watch, and the Eskimoes reached land 
unhindered, where they immediately advanced for an attack. They filled 
the passages of the house with fuel and lighted it with the fire they had 
brought with them. The Norsemen naturally tried to get out, but some 
of them died in the flames and others were killed by arrows. One of 
the Norsemen, BıG Отлу who came home from the capturing of seals, 
carrying a big fiord seal, was also killed. He was, says the legend, the 
only one who went out capturing every day, whilst the others suddenly 
had begun to stay at home fearing the Skrællings. The Norsemen’s 
chieftain Ungortok was not killed as yet. He succeeded, with a son in 
his arms, in jumping out through an opening in the house-wall (“win- 
dow”). He was persued and when he saw that he could do no more, he 
kissed his son and threw him into a lake. He succeeded in escaping, 
from Ameralik to the eastern settlement where he attached himself to 
his countrymen living there. 
Another Norseman, one of the servants, also escaped. He had gone 
on board a craft, having light sails and was about to weigh anchor, when 
the Eskimoes heard his song. When they came towards him he shouted 
loudly: “When it blows gently in the morning at Big-Ameralik, then 
there generally rises an east wind;” shortly after he cried dolefully: 
“Ah you beautiful wood-clad slopes.” 
Now the east wind blew up, and he — the last Norseman in Ame- 
ralik — swept out of the fiord. 
This interesting legend surely gives, in the main point, a real pic- 
ture of the last of the Norsemen’s existence in the western settlement. 
At one time they lived peacefully together with the Eskimoes, 
which they easily could do, as the Norsemen’s livelihood principally 
bound them to the innermost of the fiords, whilst the habits of the Skræll- 
ings necessitated their winter-dwellings being out on the coast. Subse- 
quently the contentions arose (about women, reindeer hunting-terri- 
tories in the interior ete?) and the Norsemen, who on account of the 
long separation from their native land had become demoralized, whose 
supply of iron for weapons, and the like, most probably was coming to 
an end, did not by far, possess the same ability of hunting from a kayak, 
as the Eskimoes, or the skill in the making and use of new weapons, 
